ID a cartoon

[Paul Penna]

Here's a Kodachrome slide from 1963 of my nephew watching a cartoon on a Los Angeles TV station. Any idea what it is? I want to say 1930s Warner, and maybe the character on the right is Porky Pig with a cap and wearing an oversize coat or cape, but that's pure guesswork. Maybe a fence or theater curtain in the background. Thanks!

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w163/PaulFP/cartoon.jpg

[MF TOON]

Porky The Fireman (1938)


Great photo btw!

[Tom Stathes]

That is amazing. Looks like it was taken yesterday!

[Leviathan]

Beats the tar out of the grainy, black-and-white photos of MY extended family.

The blur on the television makes Porky look fatter than he actually is. That's what threw me.

[Jon Cooke]

Are we sure that's even Porky? Blowing up the image in Photoshop, while still hard to make out, doesn't really look like Porky to me. It looks kinda Fleischer-esque. I could be wrong.

[Paul Penna]

Thanks, guys. Here's a close-up from my hi-res scan, de-colored, goosed and perspective corrected a bit. That Porky Pig business was just an impression I always had, based on the shape of the head - reminded me of the early, Porky & Beans era Porky. Probably wrong.

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w163/PaulFP/cartoon_cu.jpg

[Marty26]

It might be Picador Porky.

[MoonTwig]

I'm guessing on this to. The clothing looks like a uniform on the character on the right. Maybe the French Foreign Legion? But then the fort wall in the background would be stone maybe. And the right character kinda looks like an early Elmer Fudd. Haven't a clue about the character on the left. Everything's blurry.
Maybe I shouldn't have spun around in circles to make myself dizzy for fun, before looking at the picture.
I gonna spin the opposite way to counter my dizziness now.
:magoo:

[Studio Toledo]

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w163/PaulFP/cartoon.jpg
Such a great photo you got there! Sad thinking this is what television was all about! That could've been me 45 years ago!

[Paul Penna]

Thanks for all the suggestions; I'll try them out. My hope was to get a copy of whatever it was to my nephew somehow and ask him, "Remember that cartoon you were looking at 45 years ago?"

A little background on the picture: I took it on a visit to South Gate, California in the summer of 1963. I was 17, about to start my senior year of high school. The reason it still looks so good today is that it was shot on Kodachrome, which was not only extremely fine-grained but doesn't fade. South Gate was hot, and smoggy, but there was one really great thing about it - it was close to Disneyland!

[jonmayo15]

It looks like a Foreign Legion member with a moustache and a theater curtain in the backgroud.

[Studio Toledo]

Thanks for all the suggestions; I'll try them out. My hope was to get a copy of whatever it was to my nephew somehow and ask him, "Remember that cartoon you were looking at 45 years ago?"[/quote
Then you can go and humiliate him by taking the same photograph 45 years later! :D

[quote]A little background on the picture: I took it on a visit to South Gate, California in the summer of 1963. I was 17, about to start my senior year of high school. The reason it still looks so good today is that it was shot on Kodachrome, which was not only extremely fine-grained but doesn't fade.Something that Eastman Kodak would rather just forget and throw away like they've done to all their classic stocks (and you know how that has pissed off plenty). :(

South Gate was hot, and smoggy, but there was one really great thing about it - it was close to Disneyland!Well said. I really don't know much about southern California anyway, growing up in regular Ohio.

[Tom Stathes]

I've noticed now that Kodak is discontinuing kodachrome stock, our local oldies station has been playing the Kodachrome song quite a bit.... :o